| Authors: | Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University |
| Ian Lee MPsych, Grad Dip LIS Librarian, Murdoch University Library | |
| Subjects: | Legal research (Other articles) |
| Issue: | Volume 11, Number 4 (December 2004) |
| Category: | NetWatch |
Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material
Australian legal sites and developments
Focus on Google - reviewing its new growth and developments.
ComLaw is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department. Legislation is no longer updated on Scaleplus, and most material on Scaleplus has been transferred to ComLaw. In addition ComLaw contains FRLI (Federal Register of Legislative Instruments). This long awaited resource is searchable and browsable.
http://www.comlaw.gov.au
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/
ComLaw is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department. Legislation is no longer updated on Scaleplus, and most material on Scaleplus has been transferred to ComLaw. In addition ComLaw contains FRLI (Federal Register of Legislative Instruments). This long awaited resource is searchable and browsable.
http://www.comlaw.gov.au
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/Federal Court of Australia's online case information system, eSearch which is a searchable database of selected information on cases initiated in the Federal Court of Australia and in the federal law jurisdiction of the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia.
http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/ecourt/ecourt_esearch_slide.htmlLexScripta : Essential links for Queensland lawyers. Links to Queensland resources and more.
http://www.lexscripta.com/Parliamentary Library Publications
Research Briefs list of following titles with html and pdf links
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rb/index.htm
- The crisis in Sudan: issues and prospects
- Workplace death and serious injury: a snapshot of legislative developments in Australia and overseas
- Superannuation ready reckoner: taxation and preservation rules for 2004–05
- Political advertising in Australia
- Australia's Maritime Strategy in the 21st century
- Critical but stable: Australia's capacity to respond to an infectious disease outbreak
- Medication for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): an analysis by Federal Electorate (2001–03)
- The High Court and indefinite detention: towards a national bill of rights?
Research Notes:
- Campaigning in the 2004 federal election: innovations and traditions
- Electoral matrix: 2004 federal election
- The Internet telephone: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
- Exchange rates–the statistics (revised edition)
- Bhopal 20 years on: forum non conveniens and corporate responsibility [pdf]
- Investing in the economy's knowledge base
- The 2004 ACT Election
- Labour market dynamics
- Australia, ASEAN and the Vientiane summit, November 2004: new prospects for cooperation
- People Trafficking: Australia’s response
- Does the Australian Constitution allow harsh and inhumane detention
- Commonwealth expenditure on Indigenous affairs 1968–2004
- The King, the courts and 'incompetent' children: the welfare jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia (Re Alex: Hormonal Treatment for Gender Identity Dysphoria [2004] Fam CA 297)
- Continued detention for the protection of the community
Report - Senate Select Committee on the Scrafton Evidence (related to the Children Overboard Incident)
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/scrafton_ctte/report/index.htmSupreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
http://www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme/
Senate Select Committee on the Lindeberg Grievance [re public interest whistleblowing and inquiries into child abuse].
Parliament of Australia (Tabled 15 November 2004)
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/lindeberg_ctte/index.htm
Senate Select Committee on the Lindeberg Grievance [re public interest whistleblowing and inquiries into child abuse].
Parliament of Australia (Tabled 15 November 2004)
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/lindeberg_ctte/index.htm
Center for Immigration Studies, reports, discussion forums and short articles with linked bibliographies. US focus but should be of interest to migration researchers and lawyers from other countries.
http://www.cis.org/People Trafficking: Australia’s response. Australia. Parliamentary Library Research Note: "People trafficking is a well established and enormously lucrative business throughout the Asia Pacific region. This Research Note looks at some of the issues associated with people trafficking, outlines Australia’s responses to date, and discusses how effective those measures are likely to be in combating trafficking." [pdf - 2 pages]
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2004-05/05rn20.pdfVictims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Reports 2001 - 2004 (USA)
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/
Identity Theft Resource Center (USA)
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.shtmlPrivacy and media intrusion Report from the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong
http://www.hkreform.gov.hk/reports/index.htmU.S Commission on Civil Rights
http://www.usccr.gov/
The High Court and indefinite detention: towards a national bill of rights? (Australia. Parliamentary Library) "In August 2004 Australia’s High Court declared by 4:3 that failed asylum seekers who have nowhere to go can be kept in immigration detention indefinitely. In Al-Khateb and Al Khafaji, the majority said that provided the Immigration Minister retained the intention of eventually deporting such people, detention would remain valid. These cases will be cited by those who argue that basic freedoms for people within Australia’s jurisdiction are not adequately protected and there is a need for a national ‘bill of rights'. " [pdf- 27 pages]
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/CIB/2004-05/05cib07.pdf
Crime in the United States: 2003 [Microsoft Excel, pdf] annual report from the FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/03cius.htmCriminal Justice Policy Foundation "Our goal is to preserve freedom and democracy by improving the criminal justice system. Our mission is to educate the public about the impact of the drug policy of the United States (and other nations) and the problems of policing on the criminal justice system." Sentencing also discussed at length.
http://www.cjpf.org/Ethics and the governance of criminological research in Australia
This report examines the ethical issue involved in conducting research in this field. It takes data from submissions and interviews with criminologists and examines specifically;
"1. the impact of research ethics governance on criminologists;
2. major ethical issues that criminologists encounter; and
3. strategies for improving criminologists understanding of ethical matters and the system that regulates them."
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/vwFiles/R55.pdf/$file/R55.pdfIdentity Theft Resource Center (USA)
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.shtmlVictims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Reports 2001 - 2004 (USA)
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/
ELIXIR: European Lawyers' Information eXchange & Internet Resource and excellent site "designed to promote and improve information available about the legal professions in Europe".
http://elixir.bham.ac.uk/Google Many people will be aware of the Google search engine. It's simple interface and relevant results have won many a disciple. However there are other features to Google that might take a bit of digging to get to. Have a look at the following resources.
http://www.google.com.au/Google Scholar "Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."
http://scholar.google.com/Google Sets For the curious try this search page that will generate a list of items belonging to a category from a few examples. It may be of help if you are stuck for search terms on the information retrieval highway.
http://labs.google.com/setsGoogle News Search for the term "lawyers" across thousands of news services and find out how Michael Jackson's trial is going. You can even set up an alert for your hot topics of interest.
http://news.google.com.au/nwshp?hl=en&gl=auGoogle Groups Find out what people think about any conceivable topic in the largest archive of newsgroup activity. Try misc.legal.moderated for some fascinating discussions amongst opinioned people.
http://groups.google.com.au/grphp?hl=en&tab=ng&ned=au&q=lawyersGoogle Language Tools Try out Google's language and translation tools. Translate Advance Australia Fair into German, then French then back into English. Here's what you get;
All the Australian ones leave us rejoice,
Because we are young people and free;
Gilded us ground and abundance for of Toil,
Our house to become by the sea geumguertet;http://www.google.com/language_tools
Google Suggest Not sure of search terms to use? Let Google suggest terms that you might use in real time. Quite neat and very fast.
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=enLexScripta : Essential links for Queensland lawyers. Links to Queensland resources and more.
http://www.lexscripta.com/One Look collection of online dictionaries. Browse and search individual dictionaries or search across many dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com
Employment Insurance Jurisprudence Library - a Canadian government directory
http://www.ei-ae.gc.ca/en/library/search.shtml
Turning back the tide-the invasive species challenge
Report on the regulation, control and management of invasive species and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Invasive Species) Bill 2002 (8 December 2004)
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/ecita_ctte/invasive_species/report/index.htm
DadsDivorce: a US forum for fathers facing divorce.
http://www.dadsdivorce.com/MADRE: Demanding Human Rights for Women and Families news current affairs and activist forum.
http://www.madre.org/
The deterrent effect of capital punishment: A review of the research evidence
From Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice, Janet Chan and Deborah Oxley, from the School of Social Science and Policy, University of New South Wales provide an analysis "and summarise the empirical evidence on the deterrent effect of capital punishment. It provides a survey of the results of 74 research projects published between 1952 and 2003."
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/vwFiles/CJB84.pdf/$file/CJB84.pdf
Joseph Henry Press is an imprint of the National Academies Press. As is the case with literally thousands of books published by NAP over the last couple of decades, the vast majority of JHP books are freely available online. Law is not included as a subject heading but many of the titles in the International group are relevant for human rights issues.
http://www.nap.edu/info/browse.htmThe High Court and indefinite detention: towards a national bill of rights? (Australia. Parliamentary Library) "In August 2004 Australia’s High Court declared by 4:3 that failed asylum seekers who have nowhere to go can be kept in immigration detention indefinitely. In Al-Khateb and Al Khafaji, the majority said that provided the Immigration Minister retained the intention of eventually deporting such people, detention would remain valid. These cases will be cited by those who argue that basic freedoms for people within Australia’s jurisdiction are not adequately protected and there is a need for a national ‘bill of rights'. " [pdf- 27 pages]
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/CIB/2004-05/05cib07.pdfMADRE: Demanding Human Rights for Women and Families news current affairs and activist forum.
http://www.madre.org/Mental Disability Rights International
http://www.mdri.org/People Trafficking: Australia’s response. Australia. Parliamentary Library Research Note: "People trafficking is a well established and enormously lucrative business throughout the Asia Pacific region. This Research Note looks at some of the issues associated with people trafficking, outlines Australia’s responses to date, and discusses how effective those measures are likely to be in combating trafficking." [pdf - 2 pages]
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2004-05/05rn20.pdfVictims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Reports 2001 - 2004 (USA)
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/
Employment Insurance Jurisprudence Library - a Canadian government directory
http://www.ei-ae.gc.ca/en/library/search.shtmlLife Insurance from the New Zealand Law Commission: an extensive report on Life insurance. It in part seeks to "consider and report on the framework for regulation and supervision of life insurers and life insurance products in New Zealand and the most appropriate way to regulate the provision of life insurance in New Zealand. In particular it will:
" Identify the problems that arise out of the unique nature of life insurance and require regulation, the position of life insurance in New Zealand and the aims of regulation;"
http://www.lawcom.govt.nz/Documents/Publications/NZLCR87.pdf
People Trafficking: Australia’s response. Australia. Parliamentary Library Research Note: "People trafficking is a well established and enormously lucrative business throughout the Asia Pacific region. This Research Note looks at some of the issues associated with people trafficking, outlines Australia’s responses to date, and discusses how effective those measures are likely to be in combating trafficking." [pdf - 2 pages]
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2004-05/05rn20.pdfVictims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Reports 2001 - 2004 (USA)
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/
Digital Library of the Commons - free journals from a variety of subjects. Some legal journals are listed including elaw and Stanford Technology Law Review
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/journals.html
Life Insurance from the New Zealand Law Commission: an extensive report on Life insurance. It in part seeks to "consider and report on the framework for regulation and supervision of life insurers and life insurance products in New Zealand and the most appropriate way to regulate the provision of life insurance in New Zealand. In particular it will:
" Identify the problems that arise out of the unique nature of life insurance and require regulation, the position of life insurance in New Zealand and the aims of regulation;"
http://www.lawcom.govt.nz/Documents/Publications/NZLCR87.pdfReports from the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong
http://www.hkreform.gov.hk/reports/index.htm
- Privacy and media intrusion
- Civil liability for invasion of privacy
ELIXIR: European Lawyers' Information eXchange & Internet Resource and excellent site "designed to promote and improve information available about the legal professions in Europe".
http://elixir.bham.ac.uk/Mediation and Community Justice Centres: An empirical study
Research Report 12 (2004) - (by C Bourne)
"This Research Report is published as part of the NSW Law Reform Commissions review of the Community Justice Centres Act 1983 (NSW). The result of the Commissions review is Report 106, entitled Community Justice Centres. The data for this Report was collected by means of a telephone survey conducted during July and August 2004. The purpose of the survey was to obtain information on the experience and satisfaction of people who had participated in a Community Justice Centre mediation during this period of time."
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/rr12pref
Joseph Henry Press is an imprint of the National Academies Press. As is the case with literally thousands of books published by NAP over the last couple of decades, the vast majority of JHP books are freely available online. Law is not included as a subject heading but many of the titles in the International group are relevant for human rights issues.
http://www.nap.edu/info/browse.htm
Civil liability for invasion of privacy Report from the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong
http://www.hkreform.gov.hk/reports/index.htm